The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-09

WIN cargo OF Slo,UUO 1eet Ol ilinipe' a. VitS
Florida Railway and Navigation dock,
and left on her return trip Saturday atter-
noon
1t is understood that a furniture factory
will shortly be established at Acton An
upholsterer there is meeting with consider
able success, using a special method OF
stutfing mattresses. chairs, etc, with pal
metto and Spanish moss, and will soon
largely increase and develop his business.
r. s. Hanna, of Charlotte Harbor, was
admitted, OH motion made before His Honor
Judge Mitchell, last week In open court, to
practice law in the Sixth circuit. Mr..
Hanna is formerly from Tennessee, where
he was admitted to the bar and practiced
one year. He is an intelligent and pains
taking young man.
Capt j. w. Harllee writes to the Pine
Level Times that they are shipping about
5000 crates of vegetables from the Manatee
river. section every week; that the crates
net about 81, and that the shipments VIII
continue until the last of June, hence the
cash derived from the vegetable business
through that season will be some S'2,OOO.
The largest gator ever shot in the State,
probably, was taken out OF Lake Parker,
at Lakeland, Thursday night by j. X.
Smith and representative of the CRACKER
He measured Is feet 8 inches from tip to tip
The hide will be tanned and sent North,
while the head, bleached and polished, VIII
pose above the sanctom door of the Cracker
DeFuniak Springs has one blacksmith
shop, one town ball, twelve hotels and
boarding houses, one saw mill, two variety
works, two schools, two law Offices, one
church, one barber shop, one livery stable,
one bakery, one tin shop, one jewelry shop,
one restaurant, two millinery stores, one
drug store, one hardware store, seven gen
eral merchandise stores and two newspa-
pers.
The Jacksonville Bar Association has been
recently organized in that city among the
members of the legal profession residing
there. The officers of the Association are
President, Louis l. Fleming; Vice President,
| Horatio Bisbee; Secretary, Charles 5,
Adams; Treasurer, D. U. Fletcher; Execu-
tive Committee, A. W. Cockrel, w. B.
Voting, j. C. Cooper, j. NJ. Bars and H.
H. Buchanan.
Several large sea turtles We're turned at
Pablo Beach Sunday night by a party of
gentlemen, consisting of G. A. Root, w. W.
Jones, NJ. G. Smith and A. F. Perry. One,
weighing 275 pounds, was turned about
seven miles south Of Murray Hail. A con
veyance was secured and the monster taken
to the hotel. Thomas Ledwith and Victor
! Hart turned one weighing over 300 pounds
the same night. Turning turtles by moon
light is exciting sport.
| Great excitement prevails at Bloomfield
now over the location of the county site for
the new Lake county. Bloomfield is one
of the many towns claiming to be the most
desirable places, it being near the centre of
the county and on high rolling land healthy
and pleasant place to live, and as free
| from frost as any part Of Florida. There is
| good prospects of two railroads soon, one
| from Leesburg via Bloomfield and south,
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the west. When those two roads are built,
Bloomfield will have a genuine boom.
Vegetable shipping is nearly over at
Bloomfield for this year; Snap, beans, toma,,
| toes, ETC., were shipped from March l. and
were in the Northern market ahead of all
others, the growers realizing from 50 to SO
per head, and the prices continue good. On
the south side of Lake Harris growers usual
| " plant early gardens in October and
| November, and plant for the Northern
market on Jan. 4, as there is danger of
vegetables being hurt with cold while being
shipped North before March l. Therefore
growers only want rain enough to make
vegetables in the middle of winter to supply
the home market
Wednesday f. F. Joyce received from
| Philadelphia the first consignment Of 5000
feet of folr-inch iron tubing for the water
mains on South st. George and Charlotte
streets, st. Augustine, and Thursday morn
| ing, with characteristic dispatch, he had
gang of twenty shovelers opening a trench
in front of the residence of Mrs. Beecher
Mr.. Joyce proposes to have the mains laid
and water flowing through to st. Francis
street within week, thus completing the
water service from the city gates to St.
Francis street. Charlotte street will then
| be treated in like manner, and SO on until
his contract with the city is fulfilled.
The usually quiet neighborhood of Oviedo
has been somewhat stirred up by the unlaw-
full acts of part Of the negro population.
| One Of them, Henry Underwood, broke into
4. Solary's store and stole about $50 worth
| of goods on Saturday night. He was traced
next morning with comparative ease by
various small articles, such as tooth-brushes,
combs, ETC., that he had dropped on the way
| from the store TO his house, where he was
Sunday morning, The goods he had taken
We're found in his house, and taken, together
with him, to the office of G.. H. Pell, Justice
of the Peace, where he was held under
| guard until Monday morning, when a COM
mihnent trial was held. The evidence being
SO strong against him, the prisoner plead
| guilty, and in default of $4,000 bond, was
sent, under strong guard, to the county Jail
at Orlando, to await trial at the next session
of the Circuit Court,
Inc government engineers, under dlrec-
ton of Lieut. D. D. Gaillard, with head
quarters at North Beach are getting well
along with the preliminary work for the
survey and soundings of the bar and harbor.
The triangular work was completed Friday,
| and land beacons and water buoys indicate
the progress thus far made Water gauges
and current metres will next demand atten-
ton. Lieut.. Gaillard and aids, with in
strumeuts, have compared the water marks
OF the Matanzas aud St. Sebastian rivers.
What has been accomplished thus far is
merely preliminary to the actual survey,
tests OF currents, soundings, etc, and the
Lieutenant thinks the work will be COM
pleted by Aug. |. The little steamer Three
Links, chartered for the purpose, makes
regular trips 10 the North Beach, returning
at noon and again at night for the convent
ence OF the surveying party.
Moses Ward, colored resident of Oviedo,
known to have almost constantly carried
pistol concealed about his person, was ar
rested upon n warrant Sunday night after
much resistance ON his part He was taken
TO the Office of Justice G.. II. Pell and kept
under guard until Monday, when a commit
ment trial was held He plead guilty,
and in default of 500 bond was taken TO
the county jail at Orlando to await the
action of the grand jury. While the con-
stable and his posse were attempting TO ar
rest said Ward, another negro, Randall
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